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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Valuing the Roundup Ready® Soybean Weed Management Program
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| Autores: |
Aultman, Stephen
Hurley, Terrance M.
Mitchell, Paul D.
Frisvold, George B.
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| Data: |
2009-04-30
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
Roundup Ready
Soybean
Glyphosate
Weed Resistance
Benefits
Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
Farm Management
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
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| Resumo: |
This study examines soybean grower adoption of the Roundup Ready® (RR) weed management program with and without a residual herbicide application, and grower concerns regarding weed resistance to herbicides using telephone survey data from of 357 growers in 2007. It also estimates the pecuniary and non-pecuniary benefits enjoyed by growers from their RR program. The results indicate that soybean growers planned to treat 29 percent of their RR acres with a residual herbicide in 2008. More than half (53%) of the growers survey were concerned about weed resistance. The estimated expected benefit of the RR program in 2008 was $10.17 per acre, which translates into about $727 million with 75.7 million acres of soybean in the U.S. in 2008. The estimated value per acre of the RR program with and without a residual was $8.78 and $12.83. The estimates also suggest that if growers were not using residual herbicides with the RR program, their benefits would be 28.4% lower. Alternatively, if all growers were required to use residual herbicides on their RR acres, the value of the RR program would be 46% lower. Simply increasing grower weed resistance concerns could increase residual herbicide use on RR acres by up to 7%. The same increase in residual herbicide use could be accomplished by decreasing the cost of residual herbicide applications on RR acres by $0.81 per acre.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/49342
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Selected Paper
610098
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